Let me guess. China?
For most people the U.S., the first coverage of this to hit public awareness was in comp.risks back in 2003:
The Great Capacitor Scare of 2003 (that posting also has a link to this still extant article, though most of the other links no longer work.)
Following that posting, the IEEE covered this in several articles; here are two representative ones:
Leaking Capacitors Muck up Motherboards
Dell Tried to Hide Bad Capacitors Problem 2003-2005
This is the reason that when I bought a power supply and a video card recently, both prominently said "all Japanese capacitors" on the packaging.